A picture tells a thousand words ...Digital Story Telling

Digital stories combine digital images (still or video), a narrated ‘story’ or voice over, and sometimes music or sound effects into a ‘mini-movie’ that usually runs for around 2-4 minutes.
They are a wonderful way to capture lives and local history, and are VERY easy to create.

Preserving oral histories has become an endeavor since around the 70,s when they started collecting recordings.

They realized as time passes, many personal stories of older Australians can be forgotten or consigned to photo albums a distant memory.

The benefits to digital story telling is that it can engage the Seniors who participate.
It teaches new technology skills and can be project based where a group can collaborate together on a community or aged care facility or club project. It also offers reflection as the person delves into past memorys

Digital Story Telling is the artful use of telling a story using simple software on your computer or in the cloud using the Internet.
Designing and communicating our information in a digital story requires us to deepen our thinking and oral language. It helps develop our creativity and allows for reflection.
Digital Story Telling is generally self-directed it is about sharing an experience using a digital story format which helps deepen the communication.
Before starting your digital story create your storyboard

Story Board Template.pdf

Digital Story Telling

digitalstorytellingebook-2.pdf

E-Books resources in Wiki

Digi Tales how to create a digital Story
Digital Story Telling in 2015

Useful tools for Story telling.
https://www.hatchforgood.org

Click on the "URL Links" to find resources and tutorials.

Digital Story Telling

http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/download

Photo Story is Microsoft's way to create
digital storytelling in 5 easy steps.
For those who want to create a
multimedia movie without having to
learn advanced video editing,
Photo Story provides the perfect
alternative while still allowing you
to use the basics of any video:
images, titles, music and narration.

Digital Story Telling

http://prezi.com/

Captivate your audience by zooming
through your story.
Visually explain how new ideas
relate to each other

Digital Story Telling

http://voicethread.com/
Voice Thread conversations are
media-centric, which keeps the
discussions focused

Digital Story Telling/ Blogging

http://slideshare.net/
SlideShare is a slide hosting service.
Users can upload files
privately or publicly in PowerPoint, PDF,
Keynote or Open Document presentations.
Slide decks can then be viewed on
the site itself, on devices or
embedded on other sites.

Digital story Telling /Photography

http://www.smilebox.com/

Smilebox is a photo sharing and
social expression application
intended for
creating digital collages, invitations,
slideshows, e-cards and scrapbooks
for special occasions

Digital Story Telling/Movement

https://animoto.com/

Animoto is a cloud-based video
creation service that produces
video from photos, video clips,
and music into video slideshows.

Photo Story 3 resource

How to use Prezi

What is Voicethread

How to use Slideshare

How to Make a Smilebox slideshow

Creating your first Animoto

Haiku Deck Tutorials

Getting Started with Prezi

Official Prezi tutorials

The New Voicethread

Old Resources Still relevent till August

Getting help with Slideshare Videos

Slideshare Tutorial

Knowledge Base

Learn more about Smilebox

How to save a creation as a video file

How to use Animoto

Signing up to Animoto
How to create videos using Animoto

Digital Story Telling/ Flyers/ Presentations

PPT is a file extension
for a presentation file format
used by Microsoft PowerPoint,

Digital Story Telling

http://www.capzles.com/
Capzles is a social networking
site that allows you to share
“moments” using pictures, video clips,
audio tracks and text in a timeline
format.